Jamal

No it’s fine, I’m going to back down on this one. May your shenanigans references continue.

That’s an interesting point TC, but back then I asked @"Hanover" in a robust but minimally polite manner never to do it again, and I think my stern to...

You mention this so often that the trauma never fades.

:gasp:

I admire the way you’ve combined topics that I primitively tend to compartmentalize.

Yes, I apologize. Hereafter when I mention horses in connection with Kazakhstan I will include a citation.

You’re so humble you can’t even spell humility . :yum:

Second story from the top is “Ape breastfeeding 101: How a zookeeper helped an orangutan tap into her motherly instincts”.

BTW I get all my news from Winston-Salem, NC.

A bit of a non-story really, but I’m glad to be part of these worldwide learnings.

Angling for more sympathy, still? I ate two kinds of horse today. They eat it here like Westerners eat ham. When I say two kinds of horse I mean kinds...

I’ve made a dish that goes by the name of chicken with forty cloves of garlic. It wasn’t too garlicky. I do like a lorry-load of garlic in my meals th...

When it comes to direct vs indirect realism, sometimes discussions focus on direct/indirect (I tend to be more interested in that), and other times on...

I am toying with the idea of doing a CPR reading group here on TPF. I’ve read it once but feel I didn’t really crack it. That’s a big project though.

I’ve had matzoh balls and thought they were great. Candy eggs or chocolate rabbits in chicken soup, not so much.

Fair point, but since I wasn’t trying to show that there is such a reality, this might be a slightly unfair accusation. When I said that idealism is p...

Seems quite late for blossom but then I know nothing about crab apple trees or the delightful Longfellow district. In the garden in Spain the almonds ...

Ah, it’s Passover too. Coincidence? :chin: Happy Easter, Ramadan, and Passover then. Any I’m missing?

Currently in Central Asia, or Inner Asia as it used to be called. No chocolate rabbits but we had the moon here too.

Jesus Christ, I didn’t even know it was Good Friday. Happy Easter. Where I am they’re doing Ramadan right now, so I’ll also add Ramadan Mubarak.

Yes, I was thinking about that. I read it years ago.

Here you say it’s difficult to communicate one’s experience, but as support for this you give the fact that your mother can talk about experiences she...

I haven’t read Heidegger. There was a time when I was very attracted to his early thought and I’d planned to read it, but lately I’ve been swayed by A...

And who are these people just sitting around observing all the time? Why are they the paradigmatic subjects when others are busy doing stuff?

Incidentally, epistemology steps in here to say it’s only from a in my single point of view that I can find any secure knowledge, the “community of sp...

Actually that’s a lie, I’ve read his Philosophy of History. The “universal form of subjectivity” is Kantian.

Not that I know of. I haven’t read Hegel. How so? I mean the reality that the observers are part of and that is bigger than them.

And like all idealism his philosophy is saturated with what he is trying to ground through subjectivity: the objective world, language, and society. W...

Very dashing.

:up:

It would reduce my sense of accomplishment only if you had fixed a mistake.

I’ve done it and it works. However, as I’m not the kind of person who always has cheese cloth just lying around (hate those people) I use my palms and...

In pretending that that’s true referent eludes you you evince a sharp wit and an agile mind. Did you notice the “that that” and “you you”, in a single...

I’ve heard good things about The Magus. You read that?

In the second half of the course, starting around lecture 10, he begins to build an elaborate argument, based on the CPR, against all idealism and all...

Plunged my sausage in them.

Take your time. If it doesn’t appear for another five years, I can live with that. We’re all just excited about it.

If I read any SF in the near future it’ll be Ubik again so I can say something interesting in your possibly forthcoming discussion.

And a big nose. A nose than which none greater can be conceived.

Perfect!

Good effort. It’s time to redress the balance in favour of good clean fun.

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I hadn’t even heard of that one.

It’s 01:19 and I’ve just made myself some Turkish coffee. Perhaps not the behaviour of a gentleman but it does show I’m dedicated to coffee.

Same here, but with a glass lid over them to cook the top 1.5 mm layer of yolk in the steam from the water that comes out of the eggs.

Poaching is easy if the eggs are fresh enough, and there’s no need to turn fried eggs over at all to achieve requisite jamminess. Same here.

I think of my subjectivity as my point of view. My point of view is my own--only I can stand right here, right now--and expecting someone else to shar...

I disagree. Especially in Spain where the meal times and working hours are so unusual. Sure, but if that means you feel ashamed just for staying in be...

Don’t worry, you’re not Japanese, you’re Spanish, so you can go back to sleep after lunch.

Someone had to tell him. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. And sometimes that’s just the way the biscuit crumbles.